St. Vincent Quotes

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.

You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.

Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.

When mice run, cats give chase.

Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.

In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.

Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.

You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.

And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.

Whatever it is that makes you the person you are - that's what I love. All of it.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

I am waylaid by beauty.

I would blossom if I were a rose.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Death devours all lovely things.

The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!